TPF Viewer

Display a Target Pixel File (TPF) as a 2-D image that is linked to the time axis of any loaded light curves.

Overview

The TPF viewer renders each cadence of a KeplerTargetPixelFile or TessTargetPixelFile as a 2-D pixel image. The displayed cadence is controlled by the shared time slice indicator that is kept in sync with the Flux vs Time viewer.

A TPF viewer is created automatically when a TPF is loaded. Additional TPF viewers can be added via the TPF entry in the Viewer Creator controls, which is only shown when TPF data is present in the app.

UI Access

API Access

import jdaviz as jd
import lcviz
from lightkurve import search_targetpixelfile

tpf = search_targetpixelfile("KIC 001429092",
                             mission="Kepler",
                             cadence="long",
                             quarter=10).download()
jd.load(tpf, format="TPF")
jd.show()

# Access the TPF viewer
iv = jd.viewers['TPF']

# Create an additional TPF viewer via the viewer creator
vc = jd.new_viewers['TPF']
new_viewer = vc()

See also

CubeView

API documentation for the TPF viewer.

Photometric Extraction

The Photometric Extraction plugin for extracting light curves from a TPF.